As the wave of violence torments gang-decimated Haiti, six male religious, a lay teacher and a priest were kidnapped in two separate incidents Feb. 23 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.
The six members of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart were
The Catholic peace group Pueblo Creyente marched through the colonial city of San Cristóbal de las Casas Jan. 26 to remember the late Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who promoted a vision of an autochthonous church in the largely Indigenous state of Chiapas.
The
The brutal aggression and sexual assault of a nun on the outskirts of Medellín, the capital of Colombia's mountainous Antioquia province, has spurred outrage in the Colombian church, which is now demanding a full investigation into the attack and lamented the frequent
Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious. Other passengers on the bus also were taken in the
A deadly bomb that exploded during a Mass Dec. 3 killed at least four people and injured dozens at a university in a predominantly Muslim city in southern Philippines.
Media reports that the explosion caused panic among dozens of students and teachers in
A night of violence in Dublin that saw officers attacked, stores looted and public buses set on fire follows a stabbing attack outside a Catholic school that left three children and a teacher injured.
The Fontaine Hospital Center in Cité Soleil -- an extremely impoverished area of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince -- had to be evacuated Nov. 15 after armed gang clashes enveloped the facility. "Ultimately, the people paying the price for this violence are those who
Two weeks after the release of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "C'est la confiance" ("It's confidence"), published by Oct. 15 for the 150th anniversary of the birth of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, and in times of great turbulence for the world,
A church community in rural Arizona is praying for answers more than a week after someone stole a crucifix from the altar at St. Patrick's Church in Bisbee. The crucifix rested above the tabernacle and was present the morning of Oct. 16
In an Oct. 13 statement, the patriarchs and heads of the churches of Jerusalem urged "the people of our congregations and all those of goodwill around the world to observe a Day of Prayer and Fasting" on Oct. 17.
The efforts are "in